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Artificial Bases Added to DNA
USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes
Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form
US Plans "Disposable" Nuclear Batteries
A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer
Laser Light Re-creates 'Black Holes' in the Lab
Doctors To Control Robot Surgeon With Their Eyes
Dutch Unveil Robot Gas Station Attendant
UK Approves Human-Pig Embryo Stem-Cell Harvest
'Safe Ebola' Created for Research
Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner
New 4100 Lumen Flashlight Can Set Things On Fire
Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes
How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism?
Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets
The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C?
Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Customer Loses Xbox 360 Artwork During Repair
GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018
In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs?
Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old
DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers
Green Light for Human/Animal Hybrids
Hacking Asus EEE
Hacking a Pacemaker
Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons
Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases
Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
Vista Service Pack 1 Is Out
Artificial Intelligence at Human Level by 2029?
China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather
ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm
Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant
Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival
Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo
Experts Claim HIV Patients Made Non-Infectious
First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Under Review
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy
Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria
Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome
The Truth About New Jet Pack Hype
US To Shoot Down Dying Satellite
3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License
Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent
France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist
Killer Military Robot Arms Race Underway?
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots
Robot Interprets, Plays Back Dreams
Send the ISS To the Moon
The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?
The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts
'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year
A Robotic Taxi Named robuCAB
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages
Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head
What is the Future of Wireless Power?
Cocaine Vaccine In the Works
First DNA Molecule Constructed from Mostly Synthetic Components
Google Health Opens To the Public
Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade
Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing
Swarm Robot Immune System?
Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
USA 193 Shootdown Set For Feb 21, 03:30 UTC
World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy
Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets
Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming
Vista Service Pack One Almost Here
Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes
One Computer to Rule Them All
Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction
MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams
Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database
The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now
The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding
World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online
Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth
Google To Host Ajax Libraries
Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull
Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments
NASA Plans Probe to the Sun
Nanowires Allow For Electricity-Generating Clothing
Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan
Researchers Reference Flocking Birds to Improve Swarmbots
The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law
The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution
Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository
The DIY Tank
Focused Microwaves Could Enable Wireless Power Transfer
Chrysler To Offer Wireless Internet In 2009 Models
Google to Begin Storing Patients' Health Records
Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space
Prototype Software Sniffs Out, Disrupts Botnets
Robotic Fly to Descend on New York
Bluetooth Prosthetics Help US Marine To Walk Again
Brain Interface Lets Monkeys Control Prosthetic Limbs
Cell Metabolism Artificially Enhanced
Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End
GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources
GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers
Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org
ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting
Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity
Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq
Rocket Racing League Ready To Launch
Self-Healing Robots of Doom From UPenn
Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing
Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever
NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon
Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts
33 MegaPixel TV in 2015
Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages
Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show
Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes
Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell
FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring
Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser?
Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center
Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered
Kimchi in Space
Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos"
Researchers Infiltrate and 'Pollute' Storm Botnet
Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones
TV White Space & The Future of Wireless Broadband
eBay to Drop Negative Feedback on Buyers
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice
Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers
Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy
Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons
Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development
Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon
Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google
Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful
Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts
Inventor to Launch Pop Bottle Rocket into Space
Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives
Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity
Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think
New Robot Can Help You Find Your Way
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible
Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents
US Cyber Command Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats
Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design
What Would You Do As President?
Manmade Flood to Nourish Grand Canyon Ecosystem
Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops
Switching Hospital Systems to Linux
Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor
Would a National Biometric Authentication Scheme Work?
'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium
AI Taught How To Play Ms. Pac-Man
Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq
Bionic Arm Might Go Into Clinical Trials
Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank
Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe?
Google Crawls The Deep Web
How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected
LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40?
MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau
The Age of the Airship Returns?
The Great Microkernel Debate Continues
$1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight
23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools
A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind
AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US
An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life
BSA's Tactics and Motives Questioned
Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats
Desktop Synchrotron to Capture Molecular Action
First Exotic Space Thruster Test Ends in Explosion
Geologists Claim Earth May Be Softer Around The Middle Than Previously Thought
How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7
IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Japan IDs All Its Citizens
Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight
Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0
MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells
MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates
Magistrate Suggests Fining RIAA Lawyers
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft Suggests Carving Up HTML 5